what the heck was that? and i know what he interpreted as a smile was a grimace but that i said ouch. bland is hurting, but he has a bigger concern. i didn t know if my gear had been damaged. my pilot chute or some other part of my gear could have been opened and i might not have been aware of it. i could see from his face looking straight at my face that nothing else was wrong. so at that point, i knew i was okay. bland immediately turns his attention to the safety of his team members who start reforming around him. i need to make sure i am aiming myself back towards the drop zone to make sure i m safe and to make sure everybody else gets back. i consider that my responsibility as the person on the bottom. but as quickly as bland reorients himself, unbelievably, it happens again. another pocket of dead air, and another midair collision.
slightly move backwards. i went, oh, no. don t do that. he s dropping like a bowling ball and slams right into the back of bland s legs, sending the base of the stack into a free fall. it s a scary moment, but bland recovers quickly. scotty burns, with his camera still rolling, dives to check on his friend. i flew over next to him and gave him an okay signal. he had a big old smile on his face and kind of a look like what the heck was that? and i know what he interpreted as a smile was a grimace, but that i said ouch. bland is hurting, but he has a bigger concern. i didn t know if my gear had been damaged. my pilot chute or some other part of my gear could have been opened and i might not have been aware of it. i could see from his face looking straight at my face that nothing else was wrong. so at that point, i knew i was
cord. if you don t pull your chute in time, you re going to hit the ground. that will make it dangerous. simply jumping off a bridge isn t insane enough for alex so he decides to make things a bit more interesting. i tried to do a front flip half twist into a back flip for my first jump at like 5:00 in the morning. i was barely awake and just not coherent with myself. alex s fancy flip work costs him more time than he can afford. he can t deploy his chute in the four second time limit and now he s deep into the danger zone. he just died. the ground was coming up really fast and i was like freaking out. i just threw my pilot chute as fast as i could. but it isn t fast enough. alex hits the ground traveling more than 100 miles per hour. when i hit the ground it was lights out. i woke up about 15 seconds later on my back floating downstream in a daze about what had just happened. having survived the
in time, you re going to hit the ground. that will make it dangerous. simply jumping off a bridge isn t insane enough for alex so he decides to make things a bit more interesting. i tried to do a front flip half twist into a back flip for my first jump at like 5:00 in the morning. i was barely awake and just not coherent with myself. alex s fancy flip work costs him more time than he can afford. he can t deploy his chute in the four second time limit and now he s deep into the danger zone. he just died. the ground was coming up really fast and i was like freaking out. i just threw my pilot chute as fast as i could. but it isn t fast enough. alex hits the ground traveling more than 100 miles per hour. when i hit the ground it was lights out. i woke up about 15 seconds later on my back floating downstream in a daze about what had just happened. having survived the terrifying impact, alex s nightmare is really just
free fall. it s a scary moment, but bland recovers quickly. scotty burns, with his camera still rolling, dives to check on his friend. i flew over next to him and gave him an okay signal. he had a big old smile on his face and kind of a look like what the heck was that? and i know what he interpreted as a smile was a grimace, but that i said ouch. bland is hurting, but he has a bigger concern. i didn t know if my gear had been damaged. my pilot chute or some other part of my gear could have been opened and i might not have been aware of it. i could see from his face looking straight at my face that nothing else was wrong. so at that point, i knew i was okay. bland immediately turns his attention to the safety of his team members who start reforming around him. i need to make sure i am aiming myself back towards the drop zone to make sure i m safe